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50 000 000 000 Mark Kreis Demmin
| Issuer | Kreisausschuß des Kreises Demmin |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black letterpress on plain paper with a green floral decorative border framing the left margin. A central vignette presents a view of the Demmin town hall, above and below which the denomination 'Fünfzig Milliarden Mark' and the issuing authority are set in bold Gothic typeface. The date of issue and place of issue are printed in smaller Gothic lettering beneath the central device. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is left as plain unprinted paper, bearing two applied violet circular cachets each incorporating a stylised eagle device — the left cachet reading 'Kreisspar- u. Kreiskommunalkasse Demmin' and the right reading 'Kreisausschuss des Kreises Demmin'. Two handwritten ink signatures appear beneath their respective cachets, with a handwritten serial number in violet ink at the lower right. |
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Kreis Demmin was a rural administrative district in Pomerania, and like hundreds of similar bodies across Germany in autumn 1923, its Kreisausschuß was forced into the currency business by the complete collapse of the Reichsmark. The 50 Milliarden denomination places this note squarely in the final weeks of the hyperinflationary spiral — by November 1923, even denominations this size were inadequate for basic transactions within days of issue.
Wilhelm Gesellius was a local Demmin printer, not a specialist banknote firm. Emergency notgeld of this period was frequently produced on whatever paper stock and press capacity a town printer had available, which accounts for the wide variation in paper quality and print registration across the series.